beggars can't be choosers

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Proverb

beggars can't be choosers

  1. (idiomatic) Something is better than nothing: those who can't provide for themselves should accept whatever help is available.
    • 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.60:
      Mo went online and found me a beggars-can't-be-choosers flight out of Denver: a 5.45 a.m. takeoff, a three-hour layover at O'Hare. I'd land in Hartford by late afternoon.
      "I'll be fine," I said. "Drink a lot of coffee, drive right from school to the airport. I can crash once I get on the plane." She frowned. "Okay, let me rephrase that. I can sleep once I get on the plane."

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  • Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, p. 22.
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